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  2. Cantonese people - Wikipedia

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    The Cantonese people ... Kin W. Moy American diplomat and the first ethnic Chinese to be director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Debra Wong Yang, ...

  3. Cantonese - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese was the dominant Chinese language of the Chinese Australian community from the time the first ethnic Chinese settlers arrived in the 1850s until the mid-2000s, when a heavy increase in immigration from Mandarin-speakers largely from mainland China led to Mandarin surpassing Cantonese as the dominant Chinese dialect spoken. Cantonese ...

  4. Yue Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The term Cantonese is often used to refer to the whole branch, but linguists prefer to reserve the name Cantonese for the variety used in Guangzhou (Canton), Wuzhou (Ngchow), Hong Kong and Macau, which is the prestige dialect of the group.

  5. Overseas Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Overseas Chinese who are ethnic Han Chinese, such as Cantonese, Hokchew, Hokkien, Hakka or Teochew refer to themselves as 唐人 (Tángrén). [a] Literally, it means Tang people, a reference to Tang dynasty China when it was ruling.

  6. Language and overseas Chinese communities - Wikipedia

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    Within East Asia, Min Chinese (Hokkien, Fuzhounese, etc.), Yue Chinese (Cantonese, Taishanese, Wu-Hua, etc.), Hakka Chinese, Wu Chinese, Mandarin dialects to some extent nowadays and Standard Mandarin have served as the lingua francas amongst ethnic Chinese across most of the region and within many of its nations. However, the language ...

  7. Chinese Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    The Cantonese people (Philippine Hokkien Chinese: 廣東人 / 鄉親; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kńg-tang-lâng / Hiong-chhin, Mandarin simplified Chinese: 广东人; traditional Chinese: 廣東人; pinyin: Guǎngdōngrén) form roughly 1.2% of the unmixed ethnic Chinese population of the Philippines, with large numbers of descendants originally from ...

  8. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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    The Cantonese they speak is substantially different from the Hong Kong version considered standard. In China, people in many regions learn Mandarin in school while speaking another dialect at home.

  9. Han Chinese subgroups - Wikipedia

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    The Han Chinese people can be defined into subgroups based on linguistic, cultural, ethnic, genetic, and regional features. The terminology used in Mandarin to describe the groups is: "minxi" (Chinese: 民系; pinyin: mínxì; Wade–Giles: min 2 hsi 4; lit. 'ethnic lineages', pronounced), used in Mainland China or "zuqun" (Chinese: 族群; pinyin: zúqún; Wade–Giles: tzu 2 ch'ün; lit ...